1. How much economic freedom is needed for economic growth?
2. Profile of economist Ben Olken; via BookForum.com.
3. Identical twins aren’t so genetically identical.
4. "Love economics"; I am not sure how serious they are.
5. The economics and psychology of personality traits.
Does number 3 imply that twin studies will have underestimated the inheritability of IQ and whatnot?
The Altman article on economic freedom and economic growth has some great charts.
All the usual caveats apply with such correlations (and perhaps equally interesting, non-correlations), but they’re useful to see.
Wow, property rights, sound money, and free trade have the biggest effect on per capita gdp growth. I’m pretty sure only one politician has claimed those positions as his own this election season.
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